Letter: Deer hunting serves no good purpose

Since hunting causes the reproduction rates of a deer population to double or triple, hunting is not a solution to a problem, but a commitment to a permanent problem. This phenomenon explains why hunting as a management tool has resulted in an ever-increasing number of deer.

And, the state of New Jersey deliberately propagates deer on more than 330,000 acres of land with habitat development and management such as clear-cutting forests, controlled burning and planting of various agricultural crops favored by deer.

The irony is that the state deliberately propagates wildlife to assure an abundance of victims for "recreational" hunters. We pay for this with our state taxes. Then, when some residents begin to complain about too much wildlife for various reasons, the municipal governments use our taxes again to hire killers for our wildlife. We pay to propagate, and we pay to kill.

Leave deer alone, and their population will stabilize. Many studies have proven this.

And bow hunting is the most cruel hunting there is. Twenty-two published scientific surveys and studies indicate that the average wounding rate for bow hunting is more than 50 percent. More than half the deer shot are never retrieved. Most of these studies were conducted by state wildlife agencies. Hunters subject countless animals to great misery before death in the name of their so-called "sport."

When towns kill deer, they convey a message to our children that killing is the way to solve our problems.

Barbara Metzler

BROOKSIDE

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Letter: Deer hunting serves no good purpose

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